When Disaster Comes Calling

There are times like this when I can’t help but wonder about disaster recovery plans. A large number of companies that I have worked at or spoken with over the years seemed to pay little more than lip service to this rather significant elephant in the room.

This came to mind today while I was reading about the storm that ran roughshod over Toronto. In the midst of all the flooding I read about the servers at Toronto’s Pearson airport (YYZ).They had become, well, rather wet. There was “flooding in server rooms.” according to their tweet July 8th at 9:16 pm.

At one organization that I worked for the role of disaster recovery planning fell to an individual that had neither the interest nor the wherewithal to accomplish the task. This is a real problem for many companies and organizations. The fate of their operations can, at times, reside in the hands of someone who is disinclined to properly perform the task.

SOURCE: blogs.csoonline.com